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On the night of September 25 2007, a member of the Guardia Civil from Ceuta punctured the float of the immigrant when he was trying to enter Spain, and the man drowned as he did not know how to swim.
The denuncia claims the Guardia Civil boarded the immigrants’ boat, containing three sub-Saharan men and a woman, and took them and it into Moroccan waters, and then punctured the floats and forced them to jump into the sea. The dead man has been named as 29 year old Lauding Sonko. He tried grabbing onto the rail of the Guardia vessel but the Guardia are reported to have forced him off into the sea.
That would be a violation of article 16 of the Convention against Torture consisting as it does of ‘cruel, inhumane and degrading’ treatment.
When the Guardia Civil realised that the man was in difficulties, one of them jumped into the sea and dragged him to shore where he tried to revive him, but without success.
The UN has ordered ‘an effective and impartial’ investigation be carried out by Spain and an adequate compensation be paid to the victim’s family.
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